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| Military Officials Blame Pakistan on Afghan Crisis |
| 2011-01-07 |
| [Tolo News] Chief of the Afghan Armed forces said on Thursday that neighbouring countries, in particular Pakistain, are greatly involved in causing challenges in Afghanistan. In an interview with TOLOnews, Sher Mohammad Karimi Afghan Chief of the Armed Forces urged Pakistain to take the counter-terrorism fight serious. "It is obvious that our problems are connected to neighbours. If they had cooperated with us, we wouldn't have any problem," Mr Karimi said. "Our problems are from outside and we will continue with our peaceful policies." Head of Kandahar national security department has warned that the Taliban are preparing for a new string of attacks after the winter season. He said they are trained in areas of Baluchistan and Chaman in Pakistain. Recently Operation Omid has been launched in southern Afghanistan particularly in Kandahar province to take Taliban out of their southern hideouts. Military officials believed that the operation, which will last for eighteen months, can put greater pressure on the Taliban. Toryalai Weesa, the governor for Kandahar province said the Taliban will double efforts to regain control of the province. "Of no doubt they [Taliban] have gone to seek training and return back to conduct their operations, but I'm sure that considering the fact that communication and coordination has improved between security forces, forces of Evil wouldn't be able to conduct attacks as before," Mr Weesa told TOLOnews. Pakistain has long been under great pressure to honestly take action against forces of Evil on its territory. But Pak officials have insisted that Pakistain is also victim of terrorism and that the country is losing troops in the counter-insurgency war. |
| Posted by:Fred |